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Whether traveling on an award or a paid American Airlines itinerary, if you’re using a partner frequent flyer account number you aren’t supposed to receive extra legroom seats in coach any longer.
American Airlines flight attendant Breaunna Ross shared a video of her last announcement on her last flight before her expected furlough. She arrives at Dallas Fort Worth and shares she “didn’t hold it together lolllll.”
Another cabin crew member – who is also getting furloughed – recorded her last announcement. And then the two of them “held hands as [they] landed.”
In her defense she says she isn’t a seasoned traveler, “you know what? I don’t go on the airport that often.” So she’s just not familiar with the norms for this sort of thing. And she offers, “People make mistakes.”
Following announcements by United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines, offering airport testing for passengers on flights to Hawaii, American Airlines today announced they, too, will offer airport testing for Dallas Fort Worth – Honolulu and Maui, and also for Miami – Jamaica. They ‘expect’ to launch testing for Bahamas flights next month, and then expand the program for flights across the Caribbean.
A woman was dragged off an American Airlines regional jet flight departing Atlanta on Saturday. She climbed up on the seats at the back of the aircraft. She pounded on the overhead bins. And she let everyone throughout the plane know she had the intention of copulating throughout the entire evening.
She didn’t make her removal easy.
American Airlines CEO Doug Parker appeared on Face the Nation today. The first question he was asked was, essentially, with all the subsidies you’ve been given why do you need to furlough anybody?
He’s asked “how much money, and for how long?” Airlines aren’t going to recover by March 31, when another round of payroll support would run out and they could again furlough these same workers.
American Airlines recently shared a memo with employees, “Best practices for team members: Face covering compliance and customer aggression.”
Perhaps most shocking is that American Airlines has announced internally that mask wearing is more important than D0, an exact on time departure. None of this helps, of course, when it’s the flight attendant not wearing a mask.
American Airlines has been threatening to leave small cities if Congress doesn’t extend another $25 billion in payroll support. However one of the provisions of the CARES Act says an airline taking subsidized loans – which American just did – can be ordered by the Secretary of Transportation to continue service to small towns, as well as anywhere that it’s necessary for pharmaceutical supply chains.
No further legislation or subsidy is required to insist on continued air service. Any city losing American Airlines air service now only does so because the federal government has decided to permit it.
American Airlines announced they were going to stop serving 15 cities effective October 7, after government payroll subsidies ran out.
With two of the cities they couldn’t legally drop service because of agreements they’d entered into with the Department of Transportation but forgotten about.
You can generally buy yourself an extra seat on U.S. airlines. With airfares low, this can be a great deal.
American Airlines doesn’t promote the option, but they even have a no procedure to allow you to use credits from previous trips to pay for your extra seat.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
